Eagles coach Nick Sirianni’s contract expires after 2025

Earlier than he obtained an extension final month, Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell had a contract that ran by 2025. Eagles coach Nick Sirianni’s contract at the moment runs by 2025 — and he has but to get an extension.

He’ll be supplied one. There’s little question about it. Earlier this week, proprietor Jeffrey Lurie mentioned this about Sirianni’s deal, by way of Zach Berman of PHLY: “His future goes to be nice. We by no means discuss contracts publicly in 30 years, so I’m not going to begin now, however he’s nice.”

It’s one factor to be nice. It’s one other factor to come back to a mutual settlement as to the value of his greatness.

Adam Schefter of ESPN.com suggests {that a} win in Tremendous Bowl LIX “could be value tens of millions” to Sirianni. This assumes that Lurie will allocate much more cash to no matter he at the moment is keen to supply. With out understanding what Lurie already plans to placed on the desk, it’s not possible to know whether or not this assumption is warranted. Win or lose, Lurie might need a bottom-line quantity in thoughts for Lurie — and Lurie may shrug at an expectation for a big bump if the Eagles do what they didn’t do in Tremendous Bowl LVII.

Sirianni doesn’t get as a lot credit score as he may for a 14-3 season that secured the No. 2 seed within the NFC. Within the coach of the 12 months voting, Sirianni completed tied for eleventh place, garnering solely three fifth-place votes from the 50 AP voters.

For the Vikings, the urgency to get O’Connell’s contract performed got here from a priority that O’Connell would end his contract subsequent 12 months and grow to be a free agent. With no wage cap and no franchise tag (however with a powerful whiff of collusion in the case of teaching contracts), the Vikings would have risked having O’Connell end his deal and stroll away with out compensation after another 12 months.

For the Eagles, is there comparable urgency? Jay Glazer’s Week 18 Sunday Splash! report concerning groups being fascinated by buying and selling for a present coach was about O’Connell, not Sirianni. If different groups regard the Eagles’ current success because the product of an All-Star lineup of expertise compiled by G.M. Howie Roseman and never Sirianni’s recreation plans or in-game decision-making, would there be a land rush of franchises throwing clean checks at him like beads on Bourbon Avenue?

If Sirianni would select to stroll away from the most effective roster in soccer after 2025, teaching candidates would line up out the door for the prospect to take his place. Sirianni may find yourself with a lesser crew, and a distinct coach may find yourself together with his crew.

So though Schefter’s article appears to counsel that, if the Eagles win, Lurie had higher pay up or danger dropping Sirianni after subsequent season, it appears that evidently the Eagles are far much less involved about that end result than the Vikings have been about seeing O’Connell presumably exit for a brand new crew.